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I desperately need a competitor to come in. They’re trying to raise my bill 50% right now and there’s not a single other broadband service at my address.

Desktop and Surface Laptop Studio: KDE Neon, because I like when my desktop is pretty and hate when it works sometimes Homelab server: NixOS, because when it dies (for the third time) I have no plans to dispense any time setting it back up.

Yeah, all of mine are usually just there to spit out binaries to use locally and alert me to any new dependencies slipping by. I once worked at a company that would ship web apps with databases that only ran in a container so that they could make each layer of its image a migration. It made CI take upwards of 40 minutes for just regular PR builds.

And then there’s people who are just allergic to containers. If you want me to work on your C project, I’m not leaving dev libraries lying around or wondering why something works on my system and not on others. I’m building a Dockerfile that has only what should be needed to build and feeding make through a container and volume binding the output.

Edit: I hate flatpak and snap so much actually lol. Most of the Dockerfiles I write are just building apps from source that don’t distribute any other way. I’ll even accept AppImages, but if you make me use flatpak, I will not hesitate to start building from source.

And yet some linux devs look at me using containers for development like I’m the Demon Lord of Overhead

That’s fair enough. I can’t say I’ve used Mint very much, I’ve just known it as something to suggest to newbies. My brother revived his 2009 Macbook Pro with it, but it’s so old he mostly uses it for character sheets during Pathfinder night.

I love nixos for my homelab! Out of curiosity, why C tier for KDE Neon? (My desktop and laptop both daily drive them, and I’ve loved it since abandoning Ubuntu post-Unity)

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I just finished fixing my storage setup and was ready to add more… 😭

LOL I found the github page before the website when I discovered it. So many folks mention Handbrake, but after canceling my Adobe subscription, using this was the first time I wasn’t missing Adobe Media Encoder.

I feel like it’s a nice intermediate step when learning the commands. man is great when you already know you have the right tool and you just need to check a flag. A newbie who just left Windows is gonna be so overwhelmed by a lot of manpages, but this does a nice job of easing them in using examples to give the user an idea of what that tool is capable of.

I like using Podman Desktop to keep an eye on containers and glance at logs, but more often than not I’m doing most operations on the CLI.

ffmpeg is great, and doing simple things is pretty straightforward, but if you work with a lot of media and do different kinds of operations, give Shutter Encoder a shot, it’s an amazing FOSS GUI tool for ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and more!

As a kid I always thought a lot of stuff taught was like, duh, so obvious. It took being thrown in the adult world to see hmm… I guess… not obvious enough???

I don’t really bother encrypting my personal PC, there’s just not much on there at all that I even store. My server is definitely LUKS encrypted, but it’s a lot of effort for a very specific attack vector that I don’t anticipate. There’s things I’d be much more concerned about a burglar stealing than a storage device.

Oh, that’s easy to remember!

I’ve seen this a lot, but it’s only now that I’m questioning… what the hell is an F+?